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Specialists dispute keyword changes for C+B

A dispute between specialists and the Department of Health over use of keywords for Choose and Book clinic types has
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One in five trusts below standard on patient information

One in five NHS trusts in England do not store, use and dispose of information about patients to an agreed
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Healthcare Commission’s website opens up all NHS data

The Healthcare Commission is today launching a website to give NHS patients and the public access to its entire database
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Health IT professionals register goes public

Are your health IT professionals registered? From this week on, employers and others who need to know can now look
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Accenture & SAP to develop collaborative health network

German software providers SAP are to partner with National Programme for IT system providers Accenture to co-develop a collaborative health
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St George’s switches to ITIL framework

St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust has rolled out a new Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) framework, based on Connecting for
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UK telehealth firm gains EU recognition

The Health-eLife project, which uses doc@HOME technology from UK-based telehealth services firm Docobo, has been awarded ‘project of the month’ status
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Concerns voiced over Ireland’s iSoft deal

The main Irish opposition party, Fine Gael, has raised concerns over the recent financial difficulties of iSoft and the £38m
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South Worcestershire signs for Care Enhance Call Centre

South Worcestershire Primary Care Trust has selected an advanced call centre triage system for its GP out-of-hours (OOH) service which it
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MPs prescribe ‘rescue’ plan for NHS IT project

The government has been urged to rethink its £12.4bn NHS IT project, and replace its current highly centralised national strategy
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